This animated sequence depicts an Asteroid Redirect Mission. We first
see a small space station in low Earth orbit. Then we are taken to a
large asteroid, similar in size to say Eros, in deep space. An unmanned
mission lands on it to obtain a boulder from the asteroid's surface.
This returns to a space station in high lunar orbit, set up for
processing asteroid material.
After initial processing at the
lunar station, some of the samples are returned to the station in Earth
orbit (which has expanded slightly in the meantime) for further
experimentation.
